Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Moosings

A charitable organization is a group designed to benefit society or a group of people.

Here is an illustration:


Notes:
1. Optional transaction
2. Benefits may not be realizable individually, but rather to as a society as a whole (perceived benefit).
3. Contribution is tax deductible.

I've decided that parking and transportation office is the opposite of a charitable organization.

Here is another illustration:

Notes:
1. Mandatory transaction
2. No perceived or realizable benefits
3. There's a cool lightning shape in the box.

It is a cyclical cycle that steals from people in order to pay those who administer the fees FOR NO REALIZED BENEFIT.

"Cyclical cycle."
Haha.

The point of the charitable organizational flowchart was to show you that people like to see actual benefits come from their gifts. (And tax deductions.)

Solution to Parking and Transportation:

*Make capital expenditures in beginning construction to provide adequate parking to eliminate need for office staff and operations. This expenditure upfront would save money in the long run for students and parents alike and also for the funding institution (the "other wasted resources").

**Intermittent solution, for if you have already messed up and created such an office:
Make it a MARKET.
Sure, "sell" permits, but then students, at the end of the term, can sell back the permits or sell to other students. Ergo, there is a "renting" feel to the parking lot. Students have the ability to sell their permits at a profit. For example, if a student is graduating and has the last spot in a particular lot, the value of that permit could increase. This way, students aren't losing out $150 per year while your office is all busy picking its nose. Meanwhile, you raise enough money to do the first suggestion on the side to make it free.

When in doubt, capitalism.

I'm writing a book about how to fix the world.
It's going to be half satire, half not.

Adjusted basis,
TWS

2 comments:

  1. Good points! I like how you're using Paint to it's full potential.

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